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Quotes from The Young Duke — Benjamin Disraeli

1804–1881 England

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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.

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If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

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A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

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We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.

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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Disraeli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.